"THE FENCE is a monumental account of an urban travesty. Dick Lehr's
depiction of one of the darkest chapters in recent Boston law
enforcement history and the savage injustices perpetrated on two hero
cops--one black, one white--has all the earmarks of a classic."
Dennis Lehane,
author of Mystic River and The Given Day
“Dick
Lehr gets inside the heads of cops, criminals, prosecutors and politics
better than anyone I know. The Fence is a revealing expose of the blue
wall of silence that endangers us all.”
Alan M. Dershowitz,
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law,
Harvard Law School
“Like
cancers that never seem to be cured, the inextricably linked ills of
racism, public corruption and police misconduct continue to surface in
Boston (and indeed in America). In his disturbing new book, Dick Lehr
vividly presents another example of how difficult it is to face up to,
let alone resolve, these conflicts."
Bill Bratton,
Los Angeles Police Chief
"Dick
Lehr has written a long overdue assessment of the brutal attack by law
enforcement officers on an African American plainclothes officer,
Michael Cox, which illuminates a tragic example of the failure of our
criminal justice system. You will not be able to put this down and
hopefully it will compel you to make sure that incidents like this
never happen again on our watch. Every police officer, judge, lawyer
and citizen should read this book."
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.,
Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law
and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston
Institute For Race and Justice